FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION

FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION
   US DIGEST-size magazine. 9 issues, Winter 1966 (vol 1 \#1) to Spring 1969 (vol 2 \#3). One of the reprint magazines ed R.A.W. LOWNDES for Health Knowledge Inc., it used material from the PULP MAGAZINES of the 1930s plus 16 original short stories by Greg BEAR, Miriam Allen DEFORD, Philip K. DICK and others. The most notable of its reprints was Lawrence MANNING's The Man who Awoke series (1933 Wonder Stories; Summer 1967-Summer 1968). To issues 2-6 Lowndes contributed a series of editorials, Standards in Science Fiction, later reprinted as Three Faces of Science Fiction (1973).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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